Visual Computing and Human Centered Technology (VC+HCT)
We make digital worlds understandable and interactive. Connecting vision, graphics, visualization, immersive technologies, and human-computer interaction to create systems that help people explore and shape our world.
Committed to society.
Technology and people belong together. Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology (VC+HCT) unites visual computing, AI, and human-centered design into one research focus. Our research focus spans the full spectrum from computer graphics, image and video analysis, 3D reconstruction, rendering, and visualization to immersive technologies, multimodal interaction, accessibility, and responsible computing.
Progress at one end continuously drives innovation at the other: graphics and simulation create data and environments for AI and XR, while insights from interaction, usability, and social computing shape future technical advances. Our integrated approach enables digital technologies that are ethical, trustworthy and inclusive.
Our researchers are among Europe’s leaders in visual computing, with multiple Eurographics Fellows, IEEE VGTC Awards, and internationally recognized early-career awards. We have created lasting impact through the establishment of VRVis, Austria’s leading visual computing research center.
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We bring computing to life. With a longstanding research tradition, we combine visual intelligence, immersive technologies, and human-centered design to shape how people see, understand, and interact with the world.
Professors
Scientific Staff
Robin Angelini R. Angelini
Human Computer Interaction
PreDoc Researcher
Philipp Erler P. Erler
Computer Graphics
PostDoc Researcher
Christian Freude C. Freude
Computer Graphics
PreDoc Researcher
Harald Gall H. Gall
Distributed Systems
Affiliated
Tingyu Lin T. Lin
Computer Vision
PreDoc Researcher
Stefan Ohrhallinger S. Ohrhallinger
Computer Graphics
PostDoc Researcher
Hong-Linh Truong H. Truong
Distributed Systems
Affiliated
Matthias Zeppelzauer M. Zeppelzauer
Visual Analytics
Affiliated
Shuyin Zheng S. Zheng
Human Computer Interaction
PreDoc Researcher
Diana Marin D. Marin
Virtual and Augmented Reality
PostDoc Researcher
Sara Di Bartolomeo S. Di Bartolomeo
Algorithms and Complexity
PostDoc Researcher
Selina Reinhard S. Reinhard
Software Engineering
PreDoc Researcher
Dedicated to excellence.
Big questions deserve high standards. Our award-winning research shows that we are pushing the limits. Here is what we have been working on.
Below is some of our recent work.
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Recent Projects
- 2026 – 2031 / Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
- 2026 – 2030 / Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
- 2026 – 2030 / Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2026 – 2030 / Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2026 – 2029 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
- 2026 – 2029 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
- 2024 – 2029 / European Commission / Publications (52)
- 2026 – 2028 / Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF)
- 2026 – 2028 / Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2026 – 2028 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
- 2025 – 2028 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) / Publication
- 2025 – 2028 / Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
- 2025 – 2028 / VRVis
- 2024 – 2028 / European Commission / Publications (3)
- 2024 – 2028 / Austrian Science Fund (FWF) / Publications (27)
- 2023 – 2028 / Austrian Science Fund (FWF) / Website / Publications (7)
- 2022 – 2028 / Austrian Science Fund (FWF) / Website / Publications (10)
- 2020 – 2028 / Austrian Science Fund (FWF) / Website / Publications (35)
- 2026 – 2027 / Magna Steyr Fahrzeugtechnik GmbH &
- 2026 – 2027 / STRABAG AG
Recent Publications
- Martinez, L., Betancur Arenas, J., Vettori, B., Tellioglu, H., Keserü, I. (2026). Who shapes the streets? A stakeholder analysis of street redesign processes in European cities. Cities, 179, Article 107575. Peer-reviewed.DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2026.107575 / Project: StreetForum
- Brument, H., Epner, J., Gobl, V., Kaufmann, H. (2026). “Hips don’t lie”: mitigating the perception of rotation gains using the hanger reflex in virtual reality. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 7, Article 1934101. Peer-reviewed.DOI: 10.3389/frvir.2026.1934101 / Download: PDF
- Düzgün, A. L., Vrečar, R., Dobrosovestnova, A. (2026). Designing and Evaluating Socially Assistive Robots: The Role of Language Choice in Dementia Care Scenarios. In NordiCHI ’26 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 14th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. 14th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI 2026), Vaasa, Finland. Association for Computing Machinery. Peer-reviewed.
- Eschner, J., Eitler, D., Irendorfer, M., Kramml, P., Zeppelzauer, M., Waldner, M. (2026). Exploratory Unstructured Data Analysis: A Formative Study and Implications for Human-AI Collaboration. In NordiCHI ’26 : Pulse - exploring the energy that drives us : Proceedings of the 14th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. 14th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI 2026), Vaasa, Finland. Association for Computing Machinery.
- Zhao, K., Daadouch, S., Roth, P. M., Gelautz, M. (2026). Explainable artificial intelligence for improving trust in computer vision models for action recognition of cattle. In D. Berckmans, M. Cambra-Lopez, F. Maroto-Molina, M. Iwersen (Eds.), Precision Livestock Farming ’26 (pp. 312–315). Peer-reviewed.HDL: 20.500.12708/231126 / Project: PLFDoc
- Silva, L. M., Stefanidi, E., Min, A., Cibrian, F. L., Beltran, J. A., Zeiler, C., Schuck, S. E. B., Lakes, K. D., Hayes, G. R., Epstein, D. A. (2026). Evaluating Glanceable Multi-Device Family Health Tracking with Smartwatches and Home Displays. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 10(3), Article 151. Peer-reviewed.DOI: 10.1145/3832000
- Mao, R., Sakai, H., Freude, C., Garth, C., Gospodnetić, P., Fulir, J. (2026). Rendering Synthetic Defects for Learning‐Based Industrial Inspection. Computer Graphics Forum, Article e70550. Peer-reviewed.DOI: 10.1111/cgf.70550 / Project: PathGuideWWTF
- Rasoulzadeh, S., Suliman, R., Rasoulzadeh, A., Kovacic, I., Wimmer, M. (2026). Strokes2Deform: Physics-informed learning of deformation fields on 3D stroke clouds. Computers Graphics, 138, Article 104629. Peer-reviewed.DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2026.104629 / Project: ACD
- Rezk, E., Luschin-Ebengreuth, M., Kaufmann, H. (2026). Smartphone-based vestibular gait analysis for remote fall risk assessment. Frontiers in Digital Health, 8, 1–9. Peer-reviewed.
- Sturdee, M., Lewis, M., Davis, J. U., Strohmayer, A., Fdili Alaoui, S., KOULIDOU, K., Spiel, K. (2026). Plurality, Revisited. In Seeing Interaction Design (pp. 191–223). Springer, Cham. Peer-reviewed.DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-14200-9_13 / Project: Exceptional Norms
- Unterguggenberger, J., Lipp, L., Wimmer, M., Steinberger, M., Kerbl, B., Schütz, M. (2026). Real-Time Rendering Methods with Adaptive Levels of Detail for Fast Rendering of Parametric Objects on Modern GPUs. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 32(7), 4931–4944.
- Passecker, M., Ganahl, S., Proksa, F., Miksch, S., Aigner, W. (2026). Mapping Austrofascism in situ: a design exploration of augmented storytelling for contested historical events and sites. International Journal of Digital Humanities, 8(1–2). Peer-reviewed.DOI: 10.1007/s42803-026-00133-z / Project: VaCoViCu2
- Baumgartl, T., Sondag, M., Filipov, V., Tuscher, M., Rajendran, S., Miksch, S., Archambault, D., Arleo, A., Landesberger von Antburg, T. (2026). Survey on Visualization of Information Diffusion over Networks. In A. Abdul-Rahman, M. Angelini, B. Preim (Eds.), EuroVis 2026: 28th Eurographics Conference on Visualization 2026. Peer-reviewed.
- Kriegler, A., Beleznai, C., Gelautz, M. (2026). Towards Symmetry-sensitive Pose Estimation: A Rotation Representation for Symmetric Object Classes. International Journal of Computer Vision, 134(5), Article 212. Peer-reviewed.DOI: 10.1007/s11263-026-02770-x / Download: PDF
- Ulschmid, A., Ott, M., Macho, J., Wimmer, M., Ohrhallinger, S. (2026). NAADF: Globally Illuminated Voxel Worlds Accelerated with Nested Axis‐Aligned Distance Fields. Computer Graphics Forum. Peer-reviewed.
- Vrecar, R., Geld, B., Dobrosovestnova, A., Čolakovová, M. G., Weiss, A. (2026). Do Cookies Taste Different? The Impact of Options and Website Type When Setting Cookie Preferences. In J. F. Krems, H. Plácido da Silva, P. Cipresso (Eds.), Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications : 9th International Conference, CHIRA 2025, Marbella, Spain, October 20–21, 2025, Proceedings, Part I (pp. 56–77). Springer Cham. Peer-reviewed.DOI: 10.34726/12507 / Project: Perception of Security
- Silva, L. M., Min, A., Stefanidi, E., Cibrian, F. L., Beltran, J. A., Zeiler, C., Schuck, S., Lakes, K. D., Hayes, G. R., Epstein, D. A. (2026). FamilyBloom: Examining Ecologies of Collaboration in Family-Centered Health Tracking. In N. Oliver, D. A. Shamma, H. Candello, P. Cesar, P. Lopes, A. Bozzon, T. Kosch, V. Liao, X. Ma, V. Artizzu, F. Draxler, G. López, A. V. Reinschluessel, X. Tong, P. O. Toups Dugas (Eds.), CHI ’26: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–24). Association for Computing Machinery. Peer-reviewed.DOI: 10.1145/3772318.3791277 / Download: PDF
- Stefanidi, E., Silva, L. M., Cagiltay, B., Min, A., Eriksson, E., Hayes, G. R. (2026). Shaping HCI Research for Children’s Care Ecosystem Involvement. In CHI EA ’26: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–5). Peer-reviewed.
- Walczak, A., Dominiak, J., Kopczyński, W., Owczarek, M., Pomykalski, P., Stefanidi, E., Grudzień, K., Romanowski, A., Niess, J., Woźniak, P. W. (2026). Nudging vs. Reflection in Fitness Wearables: Evaluating the Benefits and Drawbacks of Design Strategies for Wellbeing Technologies. In CHI ’26: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–23). Peer-reviewed.
- Jarsve, T., Sienkiewicz, B., Loerakker, M. B., Woźniak, P. W., Niess, J. (2026). The Nuances of Creepiness: A Systematic Literature Review of Creepy Technology. In N. Oliver, D. A. Shamma, H. Candello, P. Cesar, P. Lopes, A. Bozzon, T. Kosch, V. Liao, X. Ma, V. Artizzu, F. Draxler, G. López, Anke V. Reinschluessel, X. Tong, P. O. Toups Dugas (Eds.), CHI ’26: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–28). Association for Computing Machinery. Peer-reviewed.DOI: 10.1145/3772318.3791030 / Download: PDF
Recent Presentations
- Tovanich, N. (2026, October 13). Analysis of User Behaviors in Blockchain : A Network Science Perspective [Keynote Presentation]. 2nd Transparency, Regulation, and Analytics in Crypto-Asset Ecosystems workshop (TRACE 2026), Florence, Italy. Invited.DOI: 10.34726/12879 / Download: PDF
- Fitzpatrick, G. (2026, October 7). Responsible Computing: From Policy to Practice [Keynote Presentation]. The 51st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Coimbra, Portugal. Invited.HDL: 20.500.12708/231746
- Strecker, C., Zheng, S., Schrems, K., Götzenbrucker, G. (2026, September 23). Analoge Unsicherheiten versus digitales Sicherheitsnetz. Geschlechtersensible Mobilitätsplanung aus der Perspektive weiblicher und queerer Jugendlicher in Wien [Conference Presentation]. 11. Tagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Geschlechterforschung (ÖGGF), Innsbruck, Austria.HDL: 20.500.12708/231692 / Project: JuMp
- Fitzpatrick, G. (2026, September 22). The work to make diversity work [Presentation]. Gran Sasso Science Institute: CUG Seminars, L’Aquila, Italy. Invited.HDL: 20.500.12708/231350
- Sempoch, C., Zheng, S. (2026, September 10). JuMp! – Jugend in (sub)urbanen Mobilitätsprozessen – Anforderungen an eine aktive Jugendmobilität [Conference Presentation]. Österreichischer Rad- und Fußverkehrsgipfel 2026, Eisenstadt, Austria.HDL: 20.500.12708/231637 / Project: JuMp
- Kriegler, A., Gelautz, M., Beleznai, C. (2026, September 8). Open World 6D Object Pose Estimation [Conference Presentation]. European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops - Fourteenth International Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics (ACVR 2026), Malmö, Sweden.HDL: 20.500.12708/230792
- Strecker, C., Zheng, S., Schrems, K., Götzenbrucker, G. (2026, June 30). Between self-sufficiency, curiosity and inabilities: Means and constraints of smartphone-supported youth mobility in suburban areas [Conference Presentation]. 2026 Conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR 2026), Galway, Ireland.HDL: 20.500.12708/229652 / Project: JuMp
- Fraissl, N., Schörkhuber, D., Hödlmoser, M., Berens, T. A., Wurzinger, L., Salzbrunn, B., Eckelt, M., Dimov, R., Gelautz, M. (2026, June 2). Towards Empathic Vehicles: Simulator-Based Induction of Affective States for Emotion Recognition [Poster Presentation]. SUMO - Simulation of Urban MObility, Berlin, Germany.HDL: 20.500.12708/228981 / Project: Empathic Vehicle
- Kriegler, A., Beleznai, C., Gelautz, M. (2026, June 1). SARR: A Symmetry-Aware Rotation Representation for Improved 6D Object Pose Estimation [Poster Presentation]. Austrian Computer Science Day (ACSD 2026), Wien, Austria.DOI: 10.34726/12302 / Download: PDF
- Fitzpatrick, G. (2026, June 1). Responsibility in Modern Society: from Policy to Practice [Presentation]. Austrian Computer Science Day 2026: “CS in Modern Society: A Sign of the Times,” Wien, Austria. Invited.HDL: 20.500.12708/230168
- Purgathofer, P. (2026, May 13). open science, open source, open society [Conference Presentation]. Open Science Day 2026, Wien, Austria. Invited.DOI: 10.34726/12221 / Download: PDF
- Kamencek, T., Filipov, V., Tuscher, M., Miksch, S., Rosenberg, R. (2026, April 17). From Data to Context : AI-Based Style Attribution in Art History [Conference Presentation]. AI and Artworks: Object Detection, Image Classification and Iconographic Analysis, Vienna, Austria. Invited.
- Osipova, E. (2026, February 13). Neuroqueering Technosexual Scripts [Conference Presentation]. Sexuality, Disability, and the Power to Disrupt, Calgary, Canada.HDL: 20.500.12708/226735 / Project: ACCESSTECH
- Stefanidi, E. (2026, February 3). Working with Underrepresented Groups in HCI: Designing for the Well-being and Empowerment of Children with ADHD and their Care Ecosystems [Presentation]. FONDA lecture series, Germany. Invited.HDL: 20.500.12708/227857
- Tovanich, N., Buchmüller, R. A., Filipov, V., Öztank, M. F., Pérez-Messina, I., Rajendran, S., Aigner, W., Miksch, S. (2026, January 12). Visual Analytics [Presentation]. Wintergraph 2026, Kaprun, Austria. Invited.HDL: 20.500.12708/225040
- Tovanich, N., Cazabet, R., Coquidé, C. (2025, December 19). Needles in the Haystack : Decoding On-Chain Behavior with Network Science and Data Mining [Presentation]. Data Mining Machine Learning (DM2L) Seminar at UMR5205 2025, Villeurbanne, France. Invited.DOI: 10.34726/11799 / Download: PDF
- Tovanich, N., Cazabet, R., Coquidé, C. (2025, December 16). From Actions to Actors to Strategies : A Multi-Scale Network Approach to Decoding On-Chain Behavior [Conference Presentation]. DeFi Workshop 2025, Grenoble, France. Invited.DOI: 10.34726/11668 / Download: PDF
- Angelini, R. (2025, December 9). Deaf Tech? Deaf Tech! The Current State of Art of Deaf Technologies [Presentation]. Deaf in AI and Technology Workshop, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the). Invited.HDL: 20.500.12708/226104 / Project: ACCESSTECH
- Tuscher, M., Rauchenberger, L., Kamencek, T., Rosenberg, R., Miksch, S., Filipov, V. (2025, November 5). A Kaleidoscopic View of Artist Co-Exhibition Networks [Poster Presentation]. IEEE VIS 2025, Wien, Austria.
- Tellioglu, H. (2025, November 2). Shaping Tomorrow’s Collaboration Through Design [Keynote Presentation]. Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online (MERCADO) Workshop @ IEEE VIS 2025, Wien, Austria.HDL: 20.500.12708/223341
Recent Theses
- Kender, K. (2026). Design Power and Social Media: From Marginalisation Machines to Pluralistic Publics [Dissertation, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.138682 / Download: PDF
- Dizdarevic, D. (2026). Comparative evaluation of business analytics and visualization tools and applications [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.120863 / Download: PDF
- Hasbay, S. C. (2026). The fellowship of Metalog BSDFs [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.134821 / Download: PDF
- Waibel, M. (2026). Template matching techniques for high accuracy workpiece measurements [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.130781 / Download: PDF
- Kunanuntakij, T. (2026). Monocular 3D human pose estimation for in-cabin monitoring utilizing synthetic images [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.140003 / Download: PDF
- Erhardt, E. (2026). Mixed reality fire extinguisher simulator [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.137383 / Download: PDF
- Siemers, O. (2026). Image based level-of-detail construction for novel view synthesis : anti-aliased Gaussian splatting via scale-space optimisation [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.135800 / Download: PDF
- Schäfer, A. B. (2026). Sound awareness using Austrian sign language for deaf and hard of hearing individuals [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.132705 / Download: PDF
- Seirlehner, T. (2026). Forklift safety training with a virtual reality simulator [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.137265 / Download: PDF
- Altrichter, C. (2026). Beyond the clinic : exploring the potential of user-centered design in mHealth for an improved wellbeing in fertility management [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.111225 / Download: PDF
- Pilizar, O. (2026). Graph neural networks for writer identification and retrieval [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.125394 / Download: PDF
- Erler, P. (2026). Smart Surface Reconstruction [Dissertation, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.139540 / Download: PDF
- Balliu, G. (2026). GUI vs CUI : a comparative study of dark pattern recognition emotional response and disengagement in graphical and conversational interfaces in E-commerce [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.138182 / Download: PDF
- Heßdörfer, K. (2026). Who am I really? : identity and community practices in VRChat [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.136925 / Download: PDF
- Kralofsky, B. (2026). Examining subject selection bias in unlabeled motion capture datasets using gait analysis [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.122573 / Download: PDF
- Kragl, C. (2026). Digital storytelling in dementia care : an arts-based knowledge translation approach to improve practical knowledge sharing among informal caregivers [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.82987 / Download: PDF
- Kusterer, S. A. (2026). Personalized empathic AI conversational agents for electric vehicle charging breaks [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.138988 / Download: PDF
- Zhang, R. (2026). LLM-based real-time multilingual communication through augmented reality glasses : effects of translation modalities [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.132546 / Download: PDF
- Düzgün, A. L. (2026). Designing and evaluating socially assistive robots : the role of language choice in dementia care scenarios [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.135814 / Download: PDF
- Schaufelberger, A. (2026). Towards fully autonomous first responder drones : a perception-driven Approach [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.133403 / Download: PDF
We shape the future.
VC+HCT will continue to advance the foundations of visual computing while shaping the next generation of human-centered digital technologies. Our new Mixed Reality Lab provides the infrastructure to explore these technologies in new ways and to collaborate across disciplines. As AI becomes part of how we see, create, and interact with the digital world, we bring together intelligent systems, visualization, graphics, vision, and immersive technologies with a deep understanding of human needs and behavior.
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